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A 20-year-old man who was convicted of murder in July for stabbing his mother in their Northeast Side home continued to insist yesterday that he acted in self-defense.

Robert L. Lindsey IV told a Franklin County judge that he disagreed with the jury, which rejected his self-defense claim and found that he purposely killed Latonia Banner, 41, on Feb. 20, 2013.

“You have to know I did not intend to harm or kill anyone,” Lindsey said to Common Pleas Judge Julie M. Lynch at his sentencing hearing.

Lynch said the evidence at trial showed just the opposite, calling his testimony “the greatest acting I’ve seen since I’ve been a judge. ... Your story does not fly at all for self-defense.”

His mother was found face down with nine stab wounds in her back, the judge said.

She imposed the mandatory sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole for 15 years.

Two of Banner’s three sisters spoke during the hearing, at times angrily, about the way Lindsey portrayed his mother during his testimony.

“You disgraced her name,” Diane Johnson said. She called Lindsey “a murderer in every sense of the word” and said he had an obligation to “share with the world that she cherished you more than life itself.”

Lindsey was a 19-year-old senior at New Albany High School when he stabbed Banner during a confrontation in his bedroom at their town home on Chestnut Ridge Loop.

He testified that they had a tumultuous relationship and that she had been abusive. He said she entered his room with two knives after they argued about text messages she found on his cellphone. She knocked him to the floor and stabbed him in the right thigh before he wrestled a knife away from her and stabbed her, he said.

Part of the sisters’ anger was fueled by Lindsey’s testimony that he treated his wound but never checked on his mother’s condition while calling 911 and waiting for police and medics to arrive.

The record shows that his mother “went to school and fought for you” and moved around the city in the hope of finding a school “where you could excel,” Lynch said.

The most disturbing item on his juvenile record occurred when, at 15, he planted fake bombs outside the homes of neighbors on the Far East Side. Lynch read aloud from one of the graphic notes that Lindsey left for a neighbor, threatening to kill and castrate the family members.